Grosvenor Prints

S.t John's Church, Jhelum, S.E. View.
Major Harley Maxwell E.I.C Engineers. W. Gauci, Lith. M&N Hanhart, Imp.t.
[n.d., c.1860.]
Chromolithograph. Very rare. Sheet: 320 x 220mm, (12½ x 8½")
A view of St. John's Church in the Jhelum cantonment in Pakistan. The church was built in 1860 to commemorate the 35 soldiers from the 24th Regiment of Foot who died during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
[Ref: 39470] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Kallenkyns autaer, de tiende.
[London: John Ogilby, 1673.]
Engraving 285 x 175mm (11¼ x 7"), with large margins. Some spotting, old ink mss. in edge of plate.
A representation of Kalki, tenth and final avatar (incarnation) of Vishnu, with his white horse Devadatta. He is destined to ride to war against Kali and, after defeating evil on Earth, rule over a new golden age. From John Ogilby's edition of Arnoldus Montanus's 'Asia'.
[Ref: 47533] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

View of Kalpy on the Jumna.
Francis Jukes. London Aquatinta fecit. Drawn on the spot by Thomas Anburey of the Corps of Engineers.
Pub. according to act of Parliament Jan. 1 1799 by T. Anburey.
Hand coloured aquatint. Platemark: 380 x 540mm (15 x 21¼").
This plate is from 'Hindoostan Scenery consisting of Twelve Select Views in India' by Francis Jukes (1746-1812) and Thomas Anburey (1759-1840) of the Corps of Engineers in Bengal. The town of Kalpi is located in a ravine of the Yamuna River, sometimes called Jamuna, the largest tributary river of the Ganges in Uttar Pradesh. It was the site of a large East India Company cotton factory, strategically located on the road to Kanpur (now Cawnpore).
[Ref: 33430] £450.00

Temple Rustique aux environs of Simla. aux Himalaya, près la Cascase appelée Lal-Pani.
Girard lith d'après le Dessin du Prince A. Soltykoff.
Imprimé par Auguste Bry, à Paris.
Tinted lithograph. 450 x 330mm (17¾ x 13"), with very large margins. Damp stains in margins at extreme top.
A temple in a clearing of a forest of fir. Shimla was the summer capital of the British Raj. Prince Alexey Soltykoff (Aleksandr Mikhailovich Saltuikov, 1806-1859) had worked for the Russian Foreign Service (including visits to Constantinople, London and Teheran) before retiring and making two trips to India (1841–43 and 1844–46). In 1850 his sketches were lithographed in this large folio format and published as 'Voyages dans l'Inde'.
[Ref: 55154] £850.00

Kaskaskia.
Aus. d. Kunstanst d. Bibliogr. Inst. in Hildb. Eigenthum d.Verlager. [n.d., c.1850.]
Steel engraving. Sheet 160 x 225mm (6¼ x 9").
A village in India.
[Ref: 52311] £40.00 (£48.00 incl.VAT)

De Stad Coetsjien Gelegen op de Cust van Malabar.
[Amsterdam, 1724-6.]
Engraved map. 290 x 365mm (11½ x 14½"), with wide margins. Some creasing, stuck into mount.
Map of Kochi, on the west coast of India, published in Francois Valentijn's 'Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien'. Once an important spice trading centre, the remains of Vasco da Gama, the first European explorer to set sail for India, were buried in a local church until they were returned to Portugal in 1539.
[Ref: 33729] £260.00

The Taking of ye City of Cotchin in Mallabar.
C. Decker fc. [after Johan Nieuhoff.]
[London: Awnsham and John Churchill, c.1703.]
Etching with engraving, late 17th century watermark. 280 x 355mm (11 x 13¾"), with wide margins. Orignal folds
The Dutch capture of Kochi (Cochin) from the Portuguese in 1663 with several large warships firing toward the town. The plate was engraved by Dutchman Coenraet Decker (c.1650-85), a pupil of Romeyn de Hooghe, as an illustration of Johann Nieuhoff's Travels, 1682. This version, with an English title, was first published in 1703 but was reissued up to 1745.
[Ref: 53369] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Cochin.
Cum Privilegio Ordinum Hollandiae et West-Frisiae. [n.d., c.1660.]
Engraving. Sheet:190 x 255mm (7½ x 9"). Trimmed.
A view of Kochi, a port town on the South-western coast of India. The Dutch first colonised the town in 1500 and ruled until they were defeated by the British in 1663. The town can be seen across the bay, and two figures, one smoking a pipe and the other carries a basket of fruit are depicted in the foreground.
[Ref: 45927] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Kollam] The City of Cowlang.
[London: Awnsham & John Churchill, 1732.]
Engraved map, 18th century watermark. 285 x 350mm (11¼ x 13¾") large margins. Original binding folds.
A plan of the sea port Kollam (or Quilon), on the Malabar coast, in Kerala, an illustration of the account of Philips Baelde's travels in India, as published in 'Churchill's Collection of Voyages'.
[Ref: 58602] £260.00

Kissna of Krissna of Krexno d'achtste autaer.
[London: John Ogilby, 1673.]
Engraving 285 x 175mm (11¼ x 7"), with very large margins. Creasing.
From Ogilby's text: ''This Kisna, or Krexno, is represented with four Arms, whereof one of the Left is held up, pointing with the Fore-finger to the Cow Camdoga; one of the Right Arms, holding a Periwincle in the Hand, extends downwards; the other two Hands seem to stop the holes of a Fife held to the Mouth of the Image. The Feet also seem as if treading the Measures of a Dance. The Head is cover'd with a Golden Crown, with several Points rais'd and beset with Pearls and Precious Stones... On each side stand two Images of Women, in rich Habits, each in a different posture worshipping him''. From John Ogilby's edition of Arnoldus Montanus's 'Asia'.
[Ref: 47537] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Raldung Peaks, Kunawar.
Day & Son, lith.rs to the Queen, London. [n.s., c.1850.]
Rare tinted lithograph. Printed area 125 x 170mm (5 x 6¾") very large margins.
Kinnaur, in the state of Himachal Pradesh, close to the Tibetan border.
Not traced in Abbey.
[Ref: 52295] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Ladak.
W.H.K. Delt. Hanhart, lith.
[London: Richard Bentley, 1863.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 245 x 150mm (9¾ x 6") very large margins.
View in Ladakh, a region of northern India near the Tibetan border. Plate to Captian William Henry Knight's 'Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet.'
British Library: 001989980. Not in Abbey.
[Ref: 53575] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[Eight watercolour views of Larkhana, Pakistan].
[Various dates, latest 1854.]
8 watercolours, largest c. 260 x 360mm (10¼ x 14").
A collection of views of Sindh, in the environs of Larkhana, home to the Bhutto family since the 18th century. By Mrs. Stewart of Lackhavah, annotated on verso in ink including Haffica Sera, designed and built by Captain Allais, Deputy Ford Collector of Lackhavah.
[Ref: 50437] £1,250.00 view all images for this item

Near Lucknow.
Drawn from Nature & on stone by Capt.n J. Luard.
Printed by C. Hullmandel. [n.d., 1835].
Lithograph on India paper with large margins. Printed area: 280 x 200mm (11 x 8").
A general view of Indian temple architecture with a pair of camels tethered in the foreground. By Major John Luard (1790 - 1875), who published 'Views in India, Saint Helena and Car Nicobar, drawn from nature and on stone' in 1835, and 'History of the Dress of the British Soldier' in 1852.
[Ref: 36876] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Madras.
Lauvergne del. Himely sc.
De Sainson Edit. [Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1833-1835.]
Aquatint on india paper with very large margins, 295 x 390mm. 11½ x 15¼".
The three-masted ship 'La Favorite' sailing off the coast of Chennai (formerly Madras), on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal, south India. She is sailing close to a smaller, two-masted vessel flying British colours. Here La Favorite is engraved for the account of her own voyage: 'Voyage autour du monde par les mers de l'Inde et de la Chine de la corvette de sa Majeste La Favorite execute pendant les annees 1830, 1831, 1832 sous le commandement de M. Laplace...' (5 vols).
See BNF FRBNF33995730. See BM Anthropology Library KU4 [LAP-] V.1-5.
[Ref: 27824] £450.00

[Madras.] 1.st. View from the Great Pagoda, near Conjeveram.
I. Wathen del.t. I. Clark direx.t.
London, Published by Black, Parry & C.o. and Nichols & C.o. 1814.
Handcoloured aquatint. Sheet: 270 x 210mm, (10½ x 8¼"). Trimmed to platemark.
A view of the temple in the Chingleput disrtict of Madras. From James Wathen's (1751-1828) 'Journal of a Voyage to India and China' (London, 1814, 2vols.)
[Ref: 40202] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Madras.] 2.d. View looking N. from the Pagoda, near Conjeveram.
I. Wathen del.t. I. Clark direx.t.
London, Published by Black, Parry & C.o. and Nichols & C.o. 1814.
Handcoloured aquatint. Sheet: 270 x 210mm, (10½ x 8¼"). Trimmed to platemark.
A view of the temple in the Chingleput disrtict of Madras. From James Wathen's (1751-1828) 'Journal of a Voyage to India and China' (London, 1814, 2vols.)
[Ref: 40203] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Madras.] Fort and Scenery near Chingleput, from the Mount Road.
I. Wathen del.t. I. Clark direx.t.
London, Published by Black, Parry & C.o. and Nichols & C.o. 1814.
Handcoloured aquatint. Sheet: 270 x 210mm, (10½ x 8¼"). Trimmed to platemark.
A view of Chingleput Fort, Madras. From James Wathen's (1751-1828) 'Journal of a Voyage to India and China' (London, 1814, 2vols.)
[Ref: 40204] £170.00 (£204.00 incl.VAT)

New Custom House, from the Hope in Madras Roads.
I. Wathen del.t. I. Clark direx.t.
London Published by Black, Parry & Co, and Nichols & Co, 1814.
Hand coloured aquatint, image 140 x 215mm. 5½ x 8½". Trimmed inside plate mark, false margins added.
From James Wathen's 'Journal of a voyage, in 1811 and 1812, to Madras and China, returning by the Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena' 1814.
Abbey Travel 517.
[Ref: 21480] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Wamans autaer, de vyfde.
[London: John Ogilby, 1673.]
Engraving 285 x 175mm (11¼ x 7"), with large margins. Some spotting in margins.
The god Mahadu, in the form of a dwarf called Vanan, tricking Bell Ragia. Asking for alms, he requests the grant of all the land he he can cover in three strides. When Bell Ragia agrees Mahadu makes one step from Bell Ragia, then steps from the Earth into the Clouds. The third step is onto Bell Ragia's heart, forcing him into an infernal pit 'Patalam', making him prince of the pit. From John Ogilby's edition of Arnoldus Montanus's 'Asia'.
[Ref: 47535] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Hindoo Excavations in the Mountain of Ellora Near Aurungabad in the Decan: In Twenty Four Views Respectfully Dedicated to Sir Charles Warre Malet Bar.t Late the British Resident at Poonah:
Engraved from the Drawings of James Wales, By and Under the Direction of Thomas Daniell.
London June, 1st. 1803.
Hand-coloured aquatint. Plate 482 x 648mm. 19 x 25½".
Title plate to part five of Thomas and William Daniell's plates on Ellora and the Ellora caves near Aurangabad in the Indian state of Maharashtra. The temples and monasteries are of Buddhist, Hindu and Jain religions.
Abbey Travel Vol.II: 420.101.
[Ref: 20673] £750.00

Hill Fort of Vesshallgheen. Vesshallgheen in the dustance.
Sketched by an Officer in the Indian Army. Printed by Friedel.
Published by A. Friedel, 24, Greek Street, Soho, London.
Lithograph on india. Printed area 205 x 250mm (8 x 9¾").
A camel train at rest. From 'Eight Most Splendid Views of India, sketched by an Officer in the Indian Army', showing hill forts in forts situated in the Western Ghats of Maharashtra, western India. Although Baron Adam Friedel is sometimes quoted as the artist as well as the publisher, it is unlikely that he served as a soldier in India; he was already a successful publisher, particularly of portraits of the leaders of the Greek revolution.
[Ref: 35525] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Ghats. At Sunrise from the South.
Sketched by an Officer in the Indian Army. Printed by Friedel.
Published by A. Friedel, 24, Greek Street, Soho, London.
Lithograph on india. Printed area 190 x 265mm (7½ x 10½").
A rural scene with with two figures in arab dress and elephants with mahouts. From 'Eight Most Splendid Views of India, sketched by an Officer in the Indian Army', showing hill forts in forts situated in the Western Ghats of Maharashtra, western India. Although Baron Adam Friedel is sometimes quoted as the artist as well as the publisher, it is unlikely that he served as a soldier in India; he was already a successful publisher, particularly of portraits of the leaders of the Greek revolution.
[Ref: 35527] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Town of Wall, and Hill Fort of Pandoghar.]
[Sketched by an Officer in the Indian Army. Printed by Friedel.
[Published by A. Friedel, 24, Greek Street, Soho, London.]
Lithograph on india, proof before letters. Printed area 175 x 245mm (7 x 9½").
The river-side defences of the town of Wall with Pandokhar in the distance. From 'Eight Most Splendid Views of India, sketched by an Officer in the Indian Army', showing hill forts in forts situated in the Western Ghats of Maharashtra, western India. Although Baron Adam Friedel is sometimes quoted as the artist as well as the publisher, it is unlikely that he served as a soldier in India; he was already a successful publisher, particularly of portraits of the leaders of the Greek revolution.
[Ref: 35530] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[West Point of Sattarah.]
[Sketched by an Officer in the Indian Army. Drawn on Stone by A. Picken.]
[Printed and published by A. Friedel, 24, Greek Street, Soho, London.]
Lithograph on india, proof before letters, very scarce. Printed area 185 x 255mm (7¼ x 9").
The fort at Satara near Pune, a seat of Maratha power in the 17th and 18th centuries, used as a British cantonment in the 19th. From 'Eight Most Splendid Views of India, sketched by an Officer in the Indian Army', showing hill forts in forts situated in the Western Ghats of Maharashtra, western India. Although Baron Adam Friedel is sometimes quoted as the artist as well as the publisher, it is unlikely that he served as a soldier in India; he was already a successful publisher, particularly of portraits of the leaders of the Greek revolution.
[Ref: 35532] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Approach to the Bore Ghaut. Drawn by W.m West, A.R.A. from a Painting by L.t Col.l Johnson, C.B.
Engraved by T. Fielding. Colored by J.B. Hogarth.
Published by R. Ackermann, Strand, & W.m Sams, St James's Street, 1826.
Aquatint printed in colours and hand-finished. Sheet: 300 x 370mm (11¾ x 14½"). Trimmed within plate.
The Bhor (or Bhore) Ghat, the main pass over the Western Ghats and the primary means of communication between the coast and the Deccan, in the north of Maharashtra. From Robert Grindlay's (1786-1877) 'Scenery, costumes and architecture, chiefly on the western side of India,' 1826-30. Grindlay, founder of the ANZ Grindlays Bank, came to India in 1803, aged only 17, and worked with the East India Company, serving with the Seventh Bombay Native Infantry from 1804-1820. William Westall (1781-1850) had travelled to Australia as artist for the Flinders expedition. Westall found the Australian landscape boring, and so, when the expedition broke up after the lead ship, the 'Investigator', was condemned, Westall travelled to India. This was without the permission of his employers, the Admiralty, who sacked him, although they still paid him to complete nine full oil paintings of his sketches of Australia.
Abbey Travel 442.
[Ref: 41318] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

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S. D. Mahomed. Shampooing Surgeon. Brighton.
Maddocks sc.
Published June, 1822, by J. Cordwell, at his Repository, 20, Great East Street, Brighton.
Stipple. Sheet size: 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼"). Trimmed inside upper, left and right platemarks.
A bust portrait of Indian-born author Sake Dean Mahomet (1759-1851). Mahomed was an Indian traveller, surgeon and entrepreneur who was the first Indian to have written a book in English. He also established 'shampooing' baths in Great Britain, where he offered therapeutic massage, and was one of the most notable early Indian immigrants to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
[Ref: 35772] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Mahrattes.
[by Balthazar Solvyns.]
[Published Paris, 1808.]
Etching printed in colour with hand-colouring, platemark approx 360 x 250mm (14¼ x 9¾").
A bare-footed Maratha, from the Indian warrior caste found predominantly in the state of Maharashtra, with a sheathed sword in his hands. From the first volume of Balthazar Solvyns' 'Les Hindoûs'. Solvyns (1760-1824), a Flemish artist who lived in Calcutta from 1791 to 1803, etched a collection of 250 plates documenting various aspects of Calcutta life. The set was first published in Calcutta, where it proved a financial failure, and Solvyns produced another set which he published in Paris after returning to Europe, although again the venture was unsuccessful, probably in part due to its publication at the height of the Napoleonic Wars. Solvyns later returned to Antwerp, where William I appointed him Captain of the Port.
[Ref: 33681] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[A snake charmer.]
F. Mansfield [facsimile signature in plate lower left].
[n.d., c.1825.]
Lithograph on india laid paper, image 287 x 241mm. Foxing, almost entirely outside india.
Scarce and attractive early issue lithograph.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 7566] £320.00

Old ruin at Masulipatam [inscribed in ink below].
J L Matheson(?) [signed in pencil lower right.]
[n.d., c.1850.]
Watercolour, sheet 210 x 260mm. 8¼ x 10¼".
Masulipatam in southern India was the first British trading settlement (1611) on the Bay of Bengal. From 1686 to 1759 the city was held by the French and Dutch, until it was finally ceded to the British, who captured the city and fort from the French in 1759. The ruined fort is still a point of interest.
[Ref: 8983] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Masulipatnam.
[London: Henry Lintot, 1744.]
Coloured engraving, 18th century watermark. 240 x 370mm (9½ x 14½"). Original binding folds.
A view of the ancient port town Masulipatnam (Machilipatnam or Bandar), India, a major trading post for the British, Dutch and French in the C17th. From 'A Collection of Voyages and Travels by Philip Baldaeus, accompanying The True & Exact Description of the Most Celebrated East'.
[Ref: 53063] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Mathura] Muttra.
Lieut. Bacon del. C.F. Tomkins Lith.
Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the King. [n.d., c.1835.]
Lithograph. Sheet 135 x 220mm (5¼ x 8¾").
Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, said to be the birthplace of Krishna.
[Ref: 52330] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Aboo's Tomb - Merut.
Drawn from Nature & on stone by Capt.n J. Luard.
Printed by Graf & Soret. [n.d., c.1835].
Lithograph on India paper with large margins. Printed area: 220 x 280mm (8¾ x 15")
A scene in Meerut, with a camel rider, two elephants and a mahout, with ornate tombs behind. By Major John Luard (1790 - 1875), who published 'Views in India, Saint Helena and Car Nicobar, drawn from nature and on stone' in 1835, and 'History of the Dress of the British Soldier' in 1852.
[Ref: 36879] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Pair of paintings of Moghul women: a horsewoman and a drummer.]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Pair of paintings on album paper, highlighted with gold and silver. 160 x 145mm, 6¼ x 5¾" & 210 x 140mm, 8¼ x 5½". Laid on album paper, some spotting.
Finely-coloured.
[Ref: 15891] £300.00 view all images for this item

Le Grand Mogol, ou L'Empereur D'Indostan….plus de milles concubines en son serail et deux cent Enuques pour les garder.
[Engraved by De Larmessin]
A Paris Chez P Bertrand Rue St. Iacques a la Pome d Or proche St Seuerin, Avec Privil du Roy.
Engraving. 175 x 240mm. Foxing/staining. Pin-sized hole lower left of frame.
Sitter could be Barbur [1483 – 1530] Mongol conqueror of India who captured Delhi and Agra (1526), and founded the Mogul dynasty.
Collection of the Royal House of Savoy and Italy.
[Ref: 1642] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Mountains of Aboo in Guzerat.
London, Pub.d by R. Ackermann, Strand, 1826.
Hand coloured aquatint. Sheet size: 250 x 315mm (10 x 12¼"). Trimmed within plate. Some staining.
Plate 6 of Robert Melville Grindlay's 'Scenery, Costumes and Architecture chiefly on the Western Side of India'. This picturesque view shows Mount Abu, in the south of Rajasthan, close to the border of Gujarat. Grindlay (1786-1877) was only 17 when he arrived in India in 1803. He served with the Bombay Native Infantry from 1804 to 1820 and during this period made a large collection of sketches and drawings.
[Ref: 39043] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Mussoorie] The Snowy Range, from Mussori.
Lieut. Bacon del. A. Picken Lith.
Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the King. [n.d., c.1835.]
Lithograph. Sheet 135 x 220mm (5¼ x 8¾"). Browned edges.
The Garhwal Himalayan range, from a hill station in Uttarakhand.
[Ref: 52333] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Nandi Raja. Maternal Grandfather of the Curtur. [&] Krishna Raja. Curtur, or Soverign of Mysore.
[after Frances Buchanan]
[n.d., paper watermarked 1807.]
Pair of fine pencil sketches. Each sheet 220 x 165mm (8¾ x 6½"). Mounted on board at corners.
A pair of fine pencil portraits, of the young Krishnaraja Wadiyar III (1794-1868), 22nd maharaja of Mysore, and his grandfather. Apparently close copies of portraits in Frances Buchanan's 'A Journey from Madras through the Countries of Mysore, Canara, and Malabar, performed under the Orders of the Marquis of Wellesley', published 1807.
[Ref: 60485] £690.00

[Nila-Pooja / Various Expiations of the Hindoos] Nylah-Poudjah
[by Balthazar Solvyns]
[published Paris, 1808]
Etching with hand-colouring, platemark approx 495 x 360mm (19½ x 14¼"). Uncut sheet; central fold as issued.
'At night, when the j'haump, of which we have already spoken, is over, the most zealous performers of expiations ressort in crowds to the munders or pagodas. There, some of them pierce their tongues with long irons, and even with a sort of cutlass or other large instrument; some get their fingers bored, and suffer iron spikes of a considerable size to remain in them; others have one hundred and twenty wounds of the same size inflicted on their foreheads, their breasts or their backs: this number, of which the mysterious amount remains unknown to us, is rigorously enjoined. Some, in fine, there are, who cause their loins to be pierced, and pass cords, the pipe of the hooka, and reeds, through the aperture, in the form of a seton. 'In this manner they go in procession the whole of the following day, stopping to dance before the doors of such as pay them; for the rich profit of these expiations through their money, and redeem their sins by the sufferings of the poor: which, in the creed of the Hindoos, is not less efficacious, nor less agreeable to God. Their march is accompanied with the sound of instruments and the acclamations of the crowd; perfumes are burned in the hands of certain Hindoos, which being probably prepared to resist the effect of the fire give something of a miraculous appearance to the feast..The feast which is celebrated with the greatest solemnity of expiatory ceremonies and tortures is that of the god Calkee. At three miles distance from Calcutta, the author was present at it. In the interior of the temple the feet waded in blood' (from letterpress published with print). From the first volume of Balthazar Solvyns' 'Les Hindoûs'. Solvyns (1760-1824), a Flemish artist who lived in Calcutta from 1791 to 1803, etched a collection of 250 plates documenting various aspects of Calcutta life. The set was first published in Calcutta, where it proved a financial failure, and Solvyns produced another set which he published in Paris after returning to Europe, although again the venture was unsuccessful, probably in part due to its publication at the height of the Napoleonic Wars. Solvyns later returned to Antwerp, where William I appointed him Captain of the Port.
[Ref: 33662] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Views of the Neilgherries, Blue Mountains of Coimbetoor, Southern India. Dedicated to the Honorable the Court of Directors of the East India Company by their obliged and humble Servant The Author.
Drawn from Nature and on Stone by Capt.n E.A. McCurdy, 27th Regi. M.N.I. Engelman, Fraf & Coindet, Lithog.
Published by Smith, Elder & Co, 65 Cornhill [1831].
Oblong large folio, original half calf with marbled back board, lacking front board; title, pp (ii), lithographic title with vignette and four plates with large margins, all on chine collé, as called for. Scarce complete. Some spotting. Plate II & III very slight worming top left.
A very rare set of views of the Nilgiri Mountains, part of the Western Ghats in western Tamil Nadu. Because of the temperate weather and the spectacular scenery, the Nilgiri became a popular sanctuary for escaping the summer heat for the Raj British. The two pages of text contain an introduction and descriptions of the plates. A review in 'The Asiatic Journal', Volume 4 (1831), dates the publication to 1831, describing it as 'the first attempt to exhibit the grand mountain scenery of the Neilgherries to the eye of residents in Europe'.
Abbey Travel 456.
[Ref: 51616] £1,800.00 view all images for this item

Nurmahal, uxer Schach Selim, Supremi Mogol.
[anon., c.1710]
Etching, platemark 285 x 170mm (11¼ x 6¾"). Small margins.
Scene in Nurmahal, or Noor Mahal, a city in the Jalandhar district in the state of Punjab, India. Plate from 'Principum et Illustrium quorundam Virorum qui in Europa alibique Terrarum, quà Fama, quà Eruditione célèbres fuerunt, verae Imagines' published by Pieter van der Aa in Leyden.
[Ref: 37016] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

View of Oudanulla, as it appeared before the Attack in 1763. Chunargur from the West, as it appeared after the Siege in 1764.
Published according to Act of Parliament by J. Rennell, Dec.r 14th 1780.
Rare engraving. 255 x 440mm (10 x 17¼"). Large margins. Bit dusty.
Two views on one plate, depicting forts on the Ganges attacked by the British during their consolidation of Bengal in the 1760s. It was first published in the second edition of James Rennell's 'Bengal Atlas', one of the landmarks of cartography.
[Ref: 37071] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Sulochenum Moodliar's Bridge Across The Tambreepoorny River At Palamcottah.
W. Orton Lith. For I.B. Pharoah.
[n.d., c.1825.]
Lithograph, sheet 180 x 260mm. 7 x 10¼". Trimmed, glued at corners to scrap sheet. Vertical centre crease.
A column of British troops marching over a bridge at Palamcottah, now Palayamkottai, in south India.
[Ref: 8982] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Palanquin presented by the Marquis of Cornwallis to Prince Abdul Calic, Eldest Son of Tippoo Sultaun. [European Magazine/]
T. Prattent Sculp.t.
Publish'd by J. Sewel, Sep.r 1796.
Engraving. Sheet 110 x 185mm (4¼ x 7¼"). Trimmed, losing sub-title.
A side view of the Oriental style palanquin, with four shutters and four panels, about 17 feet long.
[Ref: 57569] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

A View of the Pearl-Fishery. Engraved for Millar's New, Complete & Universal System of Geography.
Lodge sculp.
[London: A. Hogg, c.1782.]
Copper engraving, 190 x 290mm. 7½ x 11½". Creases.
Diving for pearls from pearl oysters, from rowing boats, for trade with European and other travellers, their tents to shore to right. For thousands of years, most seawater pearls were retrieved by divers working in the Indian Ocean, in areas such as the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea, and in the Gulf of Mannar (between Sri Lanka and India). In distinctive decorative border, from George Henry Millar's 'The new and universal System of Geography, being a complete history and description of the whole world. ...' 1782.
[Ref: 16687] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

A View of the Pearl-Fishery.
Lodge sculp.
[n.d. c.1780.]
Copper engraving. Plate 190 x 292mm (7½ x 11½").
Divers collect pearl oysters from boats, while Europeans stand on the shore examining them From "Millar's New, Complete & Universal System of Geography"; London: A. Hogg, 1782.
[Ref: 24192] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

The Burial Place of a Peer Zada, Anopther.
Colonel Ward Pinx.t. W. Orme delin. Edw.d. Orme. Excu.t.
Published & Sold Jan.y.1.1803, by Edw.d. Orme, Prinsteller to His Majesty & the Royal Family, 59 New Bond S.t. London.
Aquatint, printed in colour. Plate: 475 x 365mm (18¾ x 14½"). Laid on board. Marking.
Plate 22 from '24 Views in Indostan by William Orme' after drawings by Francis Swaine Ward (1736-1794) showing the tomb of a Muslim holy man at Anupshahr, Uttar Pradesh, the large tower to the left would have served as a lamp stand.
[Ref: 40403] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Bramin's Tomb, near the Road to Pondicherry.
J. Wathen del.t. J. Clark direx.t.
London Published by Black, Parry & Co, and Nichols & Co, 1814.
Hand coloured aquatint, image 140 x 215mm. 5½ x 8½".
From James Wathen's 'Journal of a voyage, in 1811 and 1812, to Madras and China, returning by the Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena' 1814.
Abbey Travel 517.
[Ref: 38993] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Une Mosquée aux Environs de Pondichéry. (Inde).
Dessiné par Lauvergne. Imp. Lemercier, Bernadet et C.ie. Lith. par Tudot.
Arthus Bertrand éditeur. London. Ackermann et C.o 96 Strand. [n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph, printed on chine collé. Printed area: 230 x 345mm (9 x 13½"), with very large margins. Foxing in margins.
A view of a mosque in the area in India called Pondicherry. Plate 97 from Auguste Nicholas Vaillant's 'Voyage autour du Monde [...] 1836 et 1837[...] sur la Bonite' published in Paris and London between 1840-52’, after an original drawing by B. Lauvergne.
[Ref: 47162] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Les Chars Sacrés a Pondichéry. Inde.
Lauvergne del. Imp. par Lemercier. Tirpenne lith.
Arthus Bertrand éditeur. London. Ackermann et C.o 96 Strand. [n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph, printed on chine collé. Printed area: 230 x 345mm (9 x 13½"), with very large margins. Foxing in margins.
A view of sacred constructions in Pondicherry. Plate 96 from Auguste Nicholas Vaillant's 'Voyage autour du Monde [...] 1836 et 1837[...] sur la Bonite' published in Paris and London between 1840-52’, after an original drawing by B. Lauvergne.
[Ref: 47163] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

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